Architectural landscape

This depiction of architecture suggests an open window looking out toward another building. In the foreground is the entrance portico of a temple. On either side are two yellow caryatid columns, although the head of the one on the left has been effaced. At the corners of the roof, two winged sphinxes are seated on pedestals. Below them two griffins face each other in the architrave. A two-story colonnade is in the background at left.

Architectural landscape

Medium:
Fresco
Dimensions:
96.5 cm wide, 121.3 cm high
Context:
House of the Peristyle, Pompeii
Date:
1st century CE
Inventory Number:
MANN 8572
Lender:
National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Credit:
Image © Photographic Archive, National Archaeological Museum of Naples